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...does not approve of this son's wife, her sculpture her tea gown, her furniture which "does not match." But the son's young nephew Jerry (John Beal, a capable juvenile just graduated from Pennsylvania's Mask & Wig Club) does approve. He approves so thoroughly that Actor Anders, on the point of losing his wife through blind maternal allegiance, gets his back up. against the family at last, takes his wife away An-other Language, cast and acted with intelligence, provides adult playgoing...
...Conroy, producer) This tragi-comic study of a pair of guilty consciences is said to have been prolific Playwright Wallace's favorite script chiefly because it is one of his few opera which presents not a single corpse. Not long before the playwright's death his friend Actor-Manager Conroy acquired the producing rights to the play and it is largely due to his nimbly raised eyebrows and innocently malicious innuendoes that The Man Who Changed His Name contains two plausibly amusing acts, the first and second...
...them to avoid. He therefore went scot free. When a series of near-accidents begin to happen to them, Mrs. Clive and O'Ryan are certain that her husband has planned their murders The arbor collapses, a pit is mysteriously dug in the garden, the stair rail falls. Actor Conroy's sinister joviality through all this excites a great deal of amused tittering from his audiences, goes far to compensate for but does not prevent the lameness of the farce's conclusion. The hand that flutters to Fay Bainter's sad mouth is the one that...
When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided to make a picture of Katherine Brush's novel Red-Headed Woman, they thought at once of red-headed Clara Bow, when and if she ended her retirement from notoriety. Last week, now married to Actor Rex Bell, Actress Bow announced that she would return to the screen, but not in Red-Headed Woman. She signed a contract with Fox, calling for a reported $125-$150,000 per picture. The first will be an adaptation of Tiffany Thayer's story about a half-caste girl, Call Her Savage...
...Senate Finance Committee was treated, in Washington last week, to an act "in one" by one of the nation's oldest and most famed actor-author-managers- William A. Brady, 68. Not unacquainted with Washington officialdom, Mr. Brady served the Wartime propaganda organization by directing film publicity. Last week he came, with many another of his profession, to protest the 10% amusement tax passed by the House and now on its way with the rest of the tax bill to the Senate...